Linda A Renzulli
Biographic Data
| ID | 229271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda A Renzulli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda A |
| FAMILY NAME | Renzulli |
| SIGNATURE | RENZULLI L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 327 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The Rise of Homeschooling Regulation in the Era of School Choice: Legislative and Judicial Trends, 1972–2009
Over the past four decades, states have increasingly regulated the practice of homeschooling. It is unclear, however, what initial conditions prompt states to regulate and whether states use the legislative or judicial system to do so. Using event history analyses, we identify how state‐level political dynamics, social movement mobilization, and educational policies have shaped the timing of pertinent regulatory efforts by courts and state legisl…
Educational Inequality
Many assume that the US educational system is meritocratic, meaning that through hard work all individuals have an equal chance of acquiring the educational credentials needed to succeed. This entry explores how social inequality in the education system challenges this assumption and often leads to the reproduction, and not reduction, of social inequality. In particular, the entry focuses on how family and school processes generate inequalities i…
The Closing Door: The Effect of Race on Charter School Closures
Charter schools are promoted by policy makers and advocates as a way to reduce educational inequality. Charter schools tend to enroll higher proportions of black students than do traditional public schools. However, the accountability function of charter schools means that these schools are also more likely to close than traditional public schools. A high incidence of closure can lead to educational instability with students moving in and out of …
The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education: Origins, Discontinuations, and Transformations
Innovative Education? A Test of Specialist Mimicry or Generalist Assimilation in Trends in Charter School Specialization Over Time
By most media accounts, charter schools are innovative schools. But little empirical work interrogates this idea. We examine the growth and decline of specialist charter school mission statements as one indicator of innovation. In line with theories of resource partitioning, we find that specialist charter school missions-those asserting innovation with regards to populations served, curricula utilized, and/or educational focus-have become increa…
Pathways to gender inequality in faculty pay: The Impact of institution, academic division, and rank
Digital Dimension of Cultural Capital: The (In)Visible Advantages for Students Who Exhibit Computer Skills
We update theories of teacher expectancy and cultural capital by linking them to discussions of technology. We argue for broadening the span of culturally important forms of capital by including the digital dimension of cultural capital. Based on data from the third-grade and fifth-grade waves of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey-Kindergarten cohort (ECLS-K), results suggest a comprehensive model where teachers play a prominent, mediating r…
Racial Mismatch and School Type: Teacher Satisfaction and Retention in Charter and Traditional Public Schools
Studies of teacher satisfaction suggest that satisfaction is related to both the racial composition and the organizational structure of the schools in which teachers work. In this article, the authors draw from theories of race and organizations to examine simultaneously the effects of school type (traditional public vs. charter) and racial mismatch on teacher satisfaction and subsequent turnover. In doing so, they examine the organizational diff…
District Segregation, Race Legislation, and Black Enrollment in Charter Schools
Objective. This article examines how segregation at the school level within districts and charter school legislation predict black enrollment levels at local charter schools. Methods. This study uses the Schools and Staffing Survey Charter School Data 1999–2000, Common Core of Data, and a unique data set of district test scores to estimate OLS regression models of black enrollment in charter schools on district racial segregation and race provisi…
Race, Gender, and the Wage Gap: Comparing Faculty Salaries in Predominately White and Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Using the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, the authors compare the gender pay gap at predominantly white institutions (PWIs) with the gap at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Also, within the HBCU milieu, they examine how class of the institution has an impact on pay gaps. First, they find that HBCUs do seem to have a smaller gap but that pay for all faculty at HBCUs is lower than in PWIs. Second, the gap is onl…
Mixing or Matching? The Influence of Voluntary Associations on the Occupational Diversity and Density of Small Business Owners' Networks
Most employeeswork in large organizations, enjoying the potential benefits of forming career-enhancing intraorganizational networks. By contrast, small business owners must look to external contexts such as voluntary associations for their business-enhancing ties. This research discusses ways through which involvement in voluntary associations can enhance or diminish occupational diversity and density for owners' networks. Whether owners met thei…
School Choice, Charter Schools, and White Flight
The “choice” movement of the 1990s culminated in a proliferation of charter schools. However, school choice and charter school options may have future consequences for racial segregation given the potential for white flight similar to that which occurred in the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing from racial competition theory, this article contributes to literature on education and stratification in a broader sense by examining white enrollment in charter …
Charter School Policy, Implementation, and Diffusion Across the United States
This article applies theoretical and empirical insights on diffusion to a contemporary, important, and striking case in point: the groundswell of state legislation on and implementation of charter schools over the past decade. Drawing from several data sources and using event-history analyses, competing risks, and random-effects negative binomial regression, the analyses examine how interstate dynamics and intrastate attributes affect the adoptio…
Organizational Environments and the Emergence of Charter Schools in the United States
There is a growing abundance of research on outcomes of charter schools for children, teachers, and communities, yet a paucity of research on why and how charter schools form in the first place. This article presents unique data on charter school applications to show how the early stages of school formation are embedded in, if not driven by, an organizational and institutional context. Three organizational theories-neoinstitutional, population ec…
It's up in the Air, or Is It
In his observations about the sociological imagination, C. Wright Mills argues that people have difficulty seeing connections between individual outcomes and social structures. Inspired by Mills's observations, we developed a classroom exercise for stratification and organization courses that demonstrates how social structures can constrain individual actions and still produce outcomes that students often attribute to individual effort. Using the…
Connecting the Classroom to County Characteristics
Souvent les etudiants et les professeur peuvent ne pas se comprendre. En effet, il est frequent de parler d'incompatibilite entre cours theorique et realite pratique, d'ou l'utilite du travail de groupe. Mais celui-ci ne peu apporter de sens critique aux etudiants, selon l'A., que si le professeur considere trois elements a la base de toute reflexion : 1) les processus d'apprentissage, 2) le contenu, 3) la structure des instructions
Family Matters: Gender, Networks, and Entrepreneurial Outcomes
Journal Article Family Matters: Gender, Networks, and Entrepreneurial Outcomes Get access Linda A. Renzulli, Linda A. Renzulli University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Direct correspondence to Linda A. Renzulli, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Sociology, CB #3210 Hamilton Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599. Telephone: 919-962-5044. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
School Choice, Charter Schools, and White Flight
The “choice” movement of the 1990s culminated in a proliferation of charter schools. However, school choice and charter school options may have future consequences for racial segregation given the potential for white flight similar to that which occurred in the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing from racial competition theory, this article contributes to literature on education and stratification in a broader sense by examining white enrollment in charter …
Charter School Policy, Implementation, and Diffusion Across the United States
This article applies theoretical and empirical insights on diffusion to a contemporary, important, and striking case in point: the groundswell of state legislation on and implementation of charter schools over the past decade. Drawing from several data sources and using event-history analyses, competing risks, and random-effects negative binomial regression, the analyses examine how interstate dynamics and intrastate attributes affect the adoptio…
Digital Dimension of Cultural Capital: The (In)Visible Advantages for Students Who Exhibit Computer Skills
We update theories of teacher expectancy and cultural capital by linking them to discussions of technology. We argue for broadening the span of culturally important forms of capital by including the digital dimension of cultural capital. Based on data from the third-grade and fifth-grade waves of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey-Kindergarten cohort (ECLS-K), results suggest a comprehensive model where teachers play a prominent, mediating r…
Racial Mismatch and School Type: Teacher Satisfaction and Retention in Charter and Traditional Public Schools
Studies of teacher satisfaction suggest that satisfaction is related to both the racial composition and the organizational structure of the schools in which teachers work. In this article, the authors draw from theories of race and organizations to examine simultaneously the effects of school type (traditional public vs. charter) and racial mismatch on teacher satisfaction and subsequent turnover. In doing so, they examine the organizational diff…
Family Matters: Gender, Networks, and Entrepreneurial Outcomes
Journal Article Family Matters: Gender, Networks, and Entrepreneurial Outcomes Get access Linda A. Renzulli, Linda A. Renzulli University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Direct correspondence to Linda A. Renzulli, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Sociology, CB #3210 Hamilton Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599. Telephone: 919-962-5044. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
Innovative Education? A Test of Specialist Mimicry or Generalist Assimilation in Trends in Charter School Specialization Over Time
By most media accounts, charter schools are innovative schools. But little empirical work interrogates this idea. We examine the growth and decline of specialist charter school mission statements as one indicator of innovation. In line with theories of resource partitioning, we find that specialist charter school missions-those asserting innovation with regards to populations served, curricula utilized, and/or educational focus-have become increa…
Organizational Environments and the Emergence of Charter Schools in the United States
There is a growing abundance of research on outcomes of charter schools for children, teachers, and communities, yet a paucity of research on why and how charter schools form in the first place. This article presents unique data on charter school applications to show how the early stages of school formation are embedded in, if not driven by, an organizational and institutional context. Three organizational theories-neoinstitutional, population ec…
District Segregation, Race Legislation, and Black Enrollment in Charter Schools
Objective. This article examines how segregation at the school level within districts and charter school legislation predict black enrollment levels at local charter schools. Methods. This study uses the Schools and Staffing Survey Charter School Data 1999–2000, Common Core of Data, and a unique data set of district test scores to estimate OLS regression models of black enrollment in charter schools on district racial segregation and race provisi…
Pathways to gender inequality in faculty pay: The Impact of institution, academic division, and rank
Race, Gender, and the Wage Gap: Comparing Faculty Salaries in Predominately White and Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Using the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, the authors compare the gender pay gap at predominantly white institutions (PWIs) with the gap at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Also, within the HBCU milieu, they examine how class of the institution has an impact on pay gaps. First, they find that HBCUs do seem to have a smaller gap but that pay for all faculty at HBCUs is lower than in PWIs. Second, the gap is onl…
Mixing or Matching? The Influence of Voluntary Associations on the Occupational Diversity and Density of Small Business Owners' Networks
Most employeeswork in large organizations, enjoying the potential benefits of forming career-enhancing intraorganizational networks. By contrast, small business owners must look to external contexts such as voluntary associations for their business-enhancing ties. This research discusses ways through which involvement in voluntary associations can enhance or diminish occupational diversity and density for owners' networks. Whether owners met thei…
The Closing Door: The Effect of Race on Charter School Closures
Charter schools are promoted by policy makers and advocates as a way to reduce educational inequality. Charter schools tend to enroll higher proportions of black students than do traditional public schools. However, the accountability function of charter schools means that these schools are also more likely to close than traditional public schools. A high incidence of closure can lead to educational instability with students moving in and out of …
It's up in the Air, or Is It
In his observations about the sociological imagination, C. Wright Mills argues that people have difficulty seeing connections between individual outcomes and social structures. Inspired by Mills's observations, we developed a classroom exercise for stratification and organization courses that demonstrates how social structures can constrain individual actions and still produce outcomes that students often attribute to individual effort. Using the…
Connecting the Classroom to County Characteristics
Souvent les etudiants et les professeur peuvent ne pas se comprendre. En effet, il est frequent de parler d'incompatibilite entre cours theorique et realite pratique, d'ou l'utilite du travail de groupe. Mais celui-ci ne peu apporter de sens critique aux etudiants, selon l'A., que si le professeur considere trois elements a la base de toute reflexion : 1) les processus d'apprentissage, 2) le contenu, 3) la structure des instructions
The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education: Origins, Discontinuations, and Transformations
Connecting the Classroom to County Characteristics
Souvent les etudiants et les professeur peuvent ne pas se comprendre. En effet, il est frequent de parler d'incompatibilite entre cours theorique et realite pratique, d'ou l'utilite du travail de groupe. Mais celui-ci ne peu apporter de sens critique aux etudiants, selon l'A., que si le professeur considere trois elements a la base de toute reflexion : 1) les processus d'apprentissage, 2) le contenu, 3) la structure des instructions
Family Matters: Gender, Networks, and Entrepreneurial Outcomes
Journal Article Family Matters: Gender, Networks, and Entrepreneurial Outcomes Get access Linda A. Renzulli, Linda A. Renzulli University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Direct correspondence to Linda A. Renzulli, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Sociology, CB #3210 Hamilton Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599. Telephone: 919-962-5044. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
It's up in the Air, or Is It
In his observations about the sociological imagination, C. Wright Mills argues that people have difficulty seeing connections between individual outcomes and social structures. Inspired by Mills's observations, we developed a classroom exercise for stratification and organization courses that demonstrates how social structures can constrain individual actions and still produce outcomes that students often attribute to individual effort. Using the…
School Choice, Charter Schools, and White Flight
The “choice” movement of the 1990s culminated in a proliferation of charter schools. However, school choice and charter school options may have future consequences for racial segregation given the potential for white flight similar to that which occurred in the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing from racial competition theory, this article contributes to literature on education and stratification in a broader sense by examining white enrollment in charter …
Charter School Policy, Implementation, and Diffusion Across the United States
This article applies theoretical and empirical insights on diffusion to a contemporary, important, and striking case in point: the groundswell of state legislation on and implementation of charter schools over the past decade. Drawing from several data sources and using event-history analyses, competing risks, and random-effects negative binomial regression, the analyses examine how interstate dynamics and intrastate attributes affect the adoptio…
Organizational Environments and the Emergence of Charter Schools in the United States
There is a growing abundance of research on outcomes of charter schools for children, teachers, and communities, yet a paucity of research on why and how charter schools form in the first place. This article presents unique data on charter school applications to show how the early stages of school formation are embedded in, if not driven by, an organizational and institutional context. Three organizational theories-neoinstitutional, population ec…
District Segregation, Race Legislation, and Black Enrollment in Charter Schools
Objective. This article examines how segregation at the school level within districts and charter school legislation predict black enrollment levels at local charter schools. Methods. This study uses the Schools and Staffing Survey Charter School Data 1999–2000, Common Core of Data, and a unique data set of district test scores to estimate OLS regression models of black enrollment in charter schools on district racial segregation and race provisi…
Race, Gender, and the Wage Gap: Comparing Faculty Salaries in Predominately White and Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Using the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, the authors compare the gender pay gap at predominantly white institutions (PWIs) with the gap at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Also, within the HBCU milieu, they examine how class of the institution has an impact on pay gaps. First, they find that HBCUs do seem to have a smaller gap but that pay for all faculty at HBCUs is lower than in PWIs. Second, the gap is onl…
Mixing or Matching? The Influence of Voluntary Associations on the Occupational Diversity and Density of Small Business Owners' Networks
Most employeeswork in large organizations, enjoying the potential benefits of forming career-enhancing intraorganizational networks. By contrast, small business owners must look to external contexts such as voluntary associations for their business-enhancing ties. This research discusses ways through which involvement in voluntary associations can enhance or diminish occupational diversity and density for owners' networks. Whether owners met thei…
Racial Mismatch and School Type: Teacher Satisfaction and Retention in Charter and Traditional Public Schools
Studies of teacher satisfaction suggest that satisfaction is related to both the racial composition and the organizational structure of the schools in which teachers work. In this article, the authors draw from theories of race and organizations to examine simultaneously the effects of school type (traditional public vs. charter) and racial mismatch on teacher satisfaction and subsequent turnover. In doing so, they examine the organizational diff…
Pathways to gender inequality in faculty pay: The Impact of institution, academic division, and rank
Digital Dimension of Cultural Capital: The (In)Visible Advantages for Students Who Exhibit Computer Skills
We update theories of teacher expectancy and cultural capital by linking them to discussions of technology. We argue for broadening the span of culturally important forms of capital by including the digital dimension of cultural capital. Based on data from the third-grade and fifth-grade waves of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey-Kindergarten cohort (ECLS-K), results suggest a comprehensive model where teachers play a prominent, mediating r…
Innovative Education? A Test of Specialist Mimicry or Generalist Assimilation in Trends in Charter School Specialization Over Time
By most media accounts, charter schools are innovative schools. But little empirical work interrogates this idea. We examine the growth and decline of specialist charter school mission statements as one indicator of innovation. In line with theories of resource partitioning, we find that specialist charter school missions-those asserting innovation with regards to populations served, curricula utilized, and/or educational focus-have become increa…
The Politics of Performance Funding for Higher Education: Origins, Discontinuations, and Transformations
The Closing Door: The Effect of Race on Charter School Closures
Charter schools are promoted by policy makers and advocates as a way to reduce educational inequality. Charter schools tend to enroll higher proportions of black students than do traditional public schools. However, the accountability function of charter schools means that these schools are also more likely to close than traditional public schools. A high incidence of closure can lead to educational instability with students moving in and out of …
Educational Inequality
Many assume that the US educational system is meritocratic, meaning that through hard work all individuals have an equal chance of acquiring the educational credentials needed to succeed. This entry explores how social inequality in the education system challenges this assumption and often leads to the reproduction, and not reduction, of social inequality. In particular, the entry focuses on how family and school processes generate inequalities i…
The Rise of Homeschooling Regulation in the Era of School Choice: Legislative and Judicial Trends, 1972–2009
Over the past four decades, states have increasingly regulated the practice of homeschooling. It is unclear, however, what initial conditions prompt states to regulate and whether states use the legislative or judicial system to do so. Using event history analyses, we identify how state‐level political dynamics, social movement mobilization, and educational policies have shaped the timing of pertinent regulatory efforts by courts and state legisl…
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